砍 kǎn
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kǎn
verb
to chop; to cut off
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '砍'; Guoyu '砍' v 1; Unihan '砍') -
kǎn
verb
to throw
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Northern dialect (Guoyu '砍' v 2)
Contained in
- 砍柴 to chop firewood
- 砍刀 machete
- 滥砍滥伐(濫砍濫伐) wanton destruction of forested lands
- 砍头(砍頭) to decapitate; to behead
- 砍价(砍價) to bargain; to cut or beat down a price
- 砍伤(砍傷) to wound with a blade or hatchet; to slash; to gash
- 砍树(砍樹) to chop wood; to chop down trees
- 砍伐 to hew; to cut down
- 砍断(砍斷) to chop off
- 砍死 to hack to death; to kill with an ax
- 砍杀(砍殺) to attack and kill
- 磨刀不误砍柴工(磨刀不誤砍柴工) sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer; time invested in preparations is not lost
- 砍头不过风吹帽(砍頭不過風吹帽) to regard decapitation as no more important than the wind blowing off your hat
- 砍大山 to chat; to chew the fat
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第七十五回 Chapter 75 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 15
- 第七十三回 Chapter 73 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 11
- 第五十回 Chapter 50 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 9
- 第五十三回 Chapter 53 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 9
- 第四十回 Chapter 40 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 8
- 第四十六回 Chapter 46 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 8
- 第七十八回 Chapter 78 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 7
- 第九十三回 Chapter 93 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
- 第九十五回 Chapter 95 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
- 第六十一回 Chapter 61 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 6
Collocations
- 砍翻 (砍翻) 和那交椅都砍翻了 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第三十一回 Chapter 31 — count: 25
- 斧砍 (斧砍) 黑大漢兩斧砍開 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第四十回 Chapter 40 — count: 7
- 砍去 (砍去) 一朴刀砍去 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第七十回 Chapter 70 — count: 7
- 砍做 (砍做) 砍做兩截便罷 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第四十一回 Chapter 41 — count: 7
- 一刀砍 (一刀砍) 把人一刀砍了 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第十二回 Chapter 12 — count: 6
- 便砍 (便砍) 劈手奪過一把斧來便砍 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第四十三回 Chapter 43 — count: 6
- 砍来 (砍來) 便看著扈成砍來 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第五十回 Chapter 50 — count: 6
- 刀砍 (刀砍) 競拔佩刀砍其左股 — History of Ming 明史, 卷二百九十七 列傳第一百八十五 孝義二 Volume 297 Biographies 185: Filial Acts 2 — count: 6
- 砍下马 (砍下馬) 砍下馬來 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第六十七回 Chapter 67 — count: 5
- 砍倒 (砍倒) 又砍倒一個 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第三十回 Chapter 30 — count: 4